So it's interesting how everyone in the Punch Out fandom loves Glass Joe and it seems to be because he's so pathetic, I think it's really the Wii version that helped this where it kind of changed his characterazation from the cowardly man in the SNES version to ironically quite brave in the Wii version despite how everything is stacked against him, it just makes him very endearing

Glass Joe was back in his apartment, he was once again a free man, however he had a new anxiety, he knew what he had to do, he paced back and forth he tried to think of it like taking off a band-aid, Lord knows he had done that how many times given the amount of injuries he had gotten over his career, but no, this was different and he knew it! While the Dog Mutant Woman Dana had explictly stated that she wanted to know what the secret the W.V.B.A. Boxers knew that they felt they couldn't share with the Leaders of Mutant Society the Turtles, and Glass Joe knew she was sincere when she said that, he also knew she said the OTHER thing she wanted more implitly with her body language...She wanted HIM personally...Otherwise if it was really just about wanting to know the secret, she could have gone to any of the other boxers in the W.V.B.A. She didn't have to approach the one who was in jail!

Now obviously he couldnt be sure which she wanted more, to learn the secret or to have him, but Joe felt pretty certain she wanted a relationship with him more...And that was the thing, what if he really didn't want a relationship with her? What if he would have to pretend to keep her working with them? Stringing someone along in a relationship was just one of the most rotten things one could do in his mind! Despite France's reputation for being a nation of womanizers (Although Don Flamenco seemed to do that enough that most people overlooked that steretype when it came to Glass Joe) The unfortunate truth Joe knew was that the stereotype didn't come from know where, he knew because of his teenage years where he had to protect his Little Sister Jeanette from such wolfish men!

The thinking of the term 'Wolfish' brought to his mind the other potential troubles that had come to his mind, while for the most part since America had granted Mutant Animals civil rights and for the most part everyone said they wanted Mutant kind to flourish it would look very bad to not say that particurally given how everyday peple learned more and more about how much Mutants had been suffering under the public's nose! But still since the learning that one First Earth humans and Humanimals can interbreed and have viable offspring, the subject of human/mutant animal relationships filled most humans with much unease and anxiety...Who would be the first human to dare to cross the threshold...And what might potentially be the result? Glass Joe sighed if he were a private citizen he would have more right to privacy, but he was a celebrarty athlete! Visions of what all the tabloids and celepbraty gossip magazines would say whirled in his head! Finally he hast aside all the horrors in his head with one realization...It was true he was lonely...He had gotten into this mess in the first place because he had bottled up his emotions and now this Dog Woman like an angel...Seemed to come down from heaven, offering a hand of mercy, if he felt he couldn't share his feelings with his fellow men, then perhaps he could share them with a woman, even if that woman was an animal.

He picked up his cell phone and began to dial the number...

After a few short rings, he quickly heard a gasping "Hey! Hi!" In between panting breaths Joe blinked Had she made a mad dash to run to the phone?

"Uh...Bonjour Madame..." He said he heard some sweet feminine giggles, and he sighed seemed to be the typical American woman's reacation to hearing French.

"I'm sorry..." he sighed as he sat down on the sofa "...I'm really out of practice with this, if this were the days of my youth back in Paris, I'd ask the girl out for coffee..."

"Hmmmm Coffee?" He heard what sounded like an anxious canine wine under the human voice.

"You...Don't like coffee?" Joe asked

"You got to understand." Dana said "To someone who has a much more sensitive sense of smell, coffee tastes much different to me than it does to you, it's way to strong and bitter for me."

Joe stopped a minute and thought about that, he never realized just how animals having much stronger senses would cause them to percieve things differently!

"I see." Joe said "...Though perhaps you simply just don't like your coffee black..." He knew in his own country there was Cafe Bebe a way to help children acquire the taste by using a lot of sugar, a lot of milk and a little coffee.

Then he heard a strange sound that sounded like a soft thumping.

"It sounds like there is someone beating a rug..." Joe said

"That sound you're hearing..." Dana said "...Is my tail wagging and beating against the sofa."

And with the Joe burst into laughter...Maybe because he was tired "Oh! My sides are hurting! It is so funny! That you really are animals!"

And then he realized he probably just said something incredibly offensive

"I'm so sorry Madame!" He said quickly "I didn't mean it..."

"It's OK." Dana said softly "I understand what you meant, I get it, we're strange and it takes time to get used to something new, I know what you said you didn't mean it in a bad way, you just find it funny how we're different from you and actually I appriciate it...That you aknowladge our differences that we're not human beings we're...Something different."

And Joe became very quiet as he took that in, years of Political Correctness following the American Civil Rights Movement have had the contridictory message of 'celebrate our differences' but also saying 'Differences are superficial we're all brothers under the skin' and while there was a grain of truth to those contradictory ideas that there is the universality of humanity but also there are distinct differences at least culturally if not biologically...Here was a brand new kind of people, and Dana's apprciaation of his aknowladgement that she wasn't a human but a different creature while intelligent as a human still had animal instincts really made him stop and think...That treating the Mutants as if they were just 'humans in costumes' was not going to work.

"You are very kind...Dana..." He still felt very awkward calling a lady he just met by her first name "Would you like to come to my apartment and we can talk here?"

So since I've watched the Disney Channel People special based on the book by Peter Spier it really heps me see Punch Out's cultural disversity in a new light now the Punch Out wike lists the characters' birthdates, Glass Joe's is 1949 problem is, this story takes place in 2006...While the Wii Version debueted in 2009 I want things to make chronological sense so doing the math if this story takes place in 2006 than in this story Glass Joe's birthday would be 1968